David Brooks' clear-as-mud treatise on the etiology and taxonomy of conservatism

kurth

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Sat Oct-06-07 09:57 PM
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David Brooks' clear-as-mud treatise on the etiology and taxonomy of conservatism

Modern vs. free-market vs. religious vs. temperamental vs. neo vs. Burkean vs. dispositional vs. creedal vs. American conservatism

The Republican Collapse
By DAVID BROOKS
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/05/opinion/05brooks.html

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Cerridwen

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Sat Oct-06-07 10:02 PM
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1. A thesauraus is a terrible thing to waste.

Or, "if you can't dazzle 'em with brilliance, baffle 'em with bullshit"

Pick one.

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Steven_S

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Sat Oct-06-07 10:24 PM
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2. It would take me a few hits of blotter acid...

with maybe some hash to get like that. And he does it naturally. Go figure.

:)

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pscot

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Sat Oct-06-07 11:35 PM
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3. I believe I speak for most Americans when I say

Edited on Sat Oct-06-07 11:36 PM by pscot

David Brooks doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground.

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